I formatted the harddisk of my Notebook (an old Dell Latitude CPi D300XT) because i wanted to install Win98 SE. My notebook has no internal CD-Drive. With the help of other posts in this forum, i made a boot-floppy-disk with DOS 6.22 which can access an external Plextor-USB-CD-RW-Drive (with Panasonic ASPI-Manager for USB-mass-storage V2.06). When i make a 'dir'-command, the content of the cd-drive is shown. But when i try to run the oemsetup.exe on the cd-drive or when i try to copy the content of the cd-rom to the harddisk, the message 'Bad command or file name' appears. What i'm making wrong? DOS recognizes the cd-drive, else it wouldn't show me the content of the cd-rom (and at startup the message 'USB Device Driver is installed' appears). So why can't i running a program on the cd-rom or why can't i copy files from cd-rom to harddisk? Content of config.sys: DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off FILES=30 BUFFERS=20 DEVICE=USBCD.SYS/d:USBCD001 LASTDRIVE=Z content of autoexec.bat @echo off MSCDEX /d:USBCD001 /L:X X: cd win98 oemsetup.exe I tried also x:\win98\oemsetup.exe - without success.

What you need is not this: X: cd win98 oemsetup.exe but this: X: cd win98 setup.exe But it's better to copy the win98 directory to the HD and install from there; faster: c: md c:\win98 cd c:\win98 copy x:\win98 setup HTH M2 Mechanix2@Golden-Triangle.com

first solution: it tells me 'invalid directory - bad command or file name' second solution (copy files): message 'file not found x:\win98' But the directory exists on the cd-rom (with the 'dir'-command, i can see the structure of the cd-rom)

devina, Sounds like either the CD is corrupted or the drive (and or the CD) need cleaning. Hopefully it's the latter. HTH M2 Mechanix2@Golden-Triangle.com

Obviously you are at an A:\_ prompt then undertake following: C: 'press enter' md w98temp 'press enter' x: 'press enter' cd w98 (or whatever directory the CAB files are in) 'press enter' copy *.* c:\w98temp 'press enter' c: 'press enter' cd w98temp 'press enter' setup 'press enter' ................................. THOUGH THIS SHOULD BE IN THE W9X FORUM!

devina, Do you have access to another PC in which you can read this CD? Roger, This guy is smarter than you give him credit for. He wrote a good config (lastdrive and all) and an autoexec to assign the drive letter and to take him to it. So he's pretty obviously not at the A prompt. M2 Mechanix2@Golden-Triangle.com

Does he realize that he can not run the oemsetup.exe or setup.exe from the USB device. These are Windows programs, not DOS programs and they do not have support for USB access built into them. They do have basic CD-Rom drive support (with poor error handling). As pointed out, he has to copy all of the install files on the USB device to a folder on the disk drive. Then run the programs from the disk drive. His program not found might be caused by trying to use the XCOPY command and not the DOS COPY command.